Magic Box, Sunday, 04/02

[not_every_mage]

Anders had missed enough work lately without calling in female, so here he was at the Magic Box today.

He'd gotten used to most things about his new body. (It helped that this form wasn't particularly gifted with a womanly figure, honestly.) But when it came time to restock the shelves, he found himself really missing that extra six inches in height. With a sigh, he rummaged around in the back room for a stepstool. Hopping up and down holding pickled newt tail seemed like a good way to have a very embarrassing accident.

[OOC: Open shop, open post.]

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[rebelseekspizza]

It was probably unfair that Dante had been gifted with not insignificant height, even as a woman. Not that he was thinking about that all that much.

He walked into the shop around noon, bearing two pizza boxes. "How're you holding out in here?" he called.

[not_every_mage]

"Hating being five foot whatever I am," Anders called back, coming out of the storage room. "I keep having to climb things to reach the high shelves. It's like being a monkey."

He glanced to Dante's hands and brightened. "But I'm a lot better now that you brought food."

[rebelseekspizza]

"That's what I'm here for," Dante said, putting the two boxes down on the counter. He flipped both boxes open. (They were pepperoni. One of them may or may not have had a hint of pineapple, it was hard to tell.) "Dig in, screw the shelves."

[not_every_mage]

"That sounds like a good way to get splinters," Anders joked, helping himself to a nice slice of pepperoni. "Hi. How's the girly life treating you?"

[rebelseekspizza]

"Finally got Isabela to pay me back on the lessons about being a dude I taught her last time around," Dante said easily. "I can cross that off my bucket list."

[not_every_mage]

"How was it?" Anders wondered, equally easily. He'd have to be a much bigger hypocrite than he was to be jealous of Isabela.

Besides, he couldn't say he wasn't curious about doing the same -- if not necessarily with the same partner.

[rebelseekspizza]

"Girl bodies are weird, man," Dante said, snagging a slice. "Not that it was bad. Isabela knows how to work no matter what she looks like."

He took a bite. "Might've been more fun if the island had skipped one of us this time, right?"

[not_every_mage]

Anders snickered and threw a big, cheesy wink Dante's way. "Maybe, but I think we can entertain ourselves just fine."

[rebelseekspizza]

"Your bed or mine tonight?" Dante joked.

Half-joked?

Quarter-joked?

[not_every_mage]

"Who says we need to make it to a bed?" Anders quarter-joked back. "... seriously, I shouldn't be out too late."

[rebelseekspizza]

Dante grinned at him. "So I should be back in a couple of hours, you're telling me."

[not_every_mage]

Anders grinned back. "I'll even buy you dinner."

[rebelseekspizza]

"Think we can flirt our way into free drinks?" Dante mused.

[not_every_mage]

"I think we're at least pretty enough for that, don't you?" Anders replied. "But I'm drawing the line at flashing my cleavage."

Not that he had much, but principles were principles.

[rebelseekspizza]

Dante snickered. "Don't worry," he said, "I got that handled."

He leaned on the counter. The neck-slit in his bandshirt fell open.

[not_every_mage]

"Sweet Andraste," Anders remarked, very intently looking down Dante's shirt. "I just want to squeeze them. If I got those, I'd be walking around topless."

Sure, it was weird to be ogling Dante's tits, but after almost four years in Fandom weird no longer registered.

[rebelseekspizza]

"It took me like three hours to get out of the room on Saturday," Dante allowed, leaning back. "And Ades had to get me a sports bra." Beat. "Never thought I'd be saying that."

[not_every_mage]

"The part about the bra, or about Ada having to get it for you?" Anders wondered aloud

[rebelseekspizza]

"Both?" Dante offered. "Okay, the bra is definitely on top of the list, but having a chick you slept with fetch you one... also kinda weird."

[not_every_mage]

"Better than having someone you never slept with get it for you," Anders suggested. "At least Ada's already seen you naked."

He had skipped the bra, and now he was looking down at the front of his shirt wondering if that had been a good idea.

[rebelseekspizza]

"She hasn't seen this me naked," Dante pointed out easily. "But hey, I guess."

He snagged another slice of pizza. "What was it like the first time this happened to you?"

[not_every_mage]

"That feels like a thousand years ago," Anders mused. "Disorienting, I guess. I didn't mind it but I didn't know to expect it, and I just felt incredibly self-conscious the whole time."

He looked at Dante. "This is your first go-round, isn't it?"

[rebelseekspizza]

"Yeah," Dante said. He shrugged. "But I feel like I've heard about it so many times it's like whatever, right?"

[not_every_mage]

"I know what you mean," Anders agreed as he picked a bit of pineapple off his slice to eat separately. "I've never turned into an animal or gotten bitten by a gremlin, but if it happened, it'd seem overdue."

[rebelseekspizza]

"Like 'I'm a giraffe, of course I'm a giraffe, hey, I wonder what it's like eating shit as a giraffe'," Dante said. "Basically how I look at this shit now. It's wacky, I wouldn't wanna be like this forever, but it'll pass, right?"

[not_every_mage]

"It always does," Anders agreed. "... damn it. Now I'm a little sad I never woke up as a giraffe. Would I fit into the room, do you think?"

[rebelseekspizza]

"Don't think so, unless you wanna snap your neck in two," Dante mused. "Maybe if you were lying down?"

[not_every_mage]

"I'd like that," Anders said. "You'd come home from class one day and there I'd be, lying on the floor with my head out the window to eat leaves."

[rebelseekspizza]

"Probably blocking my way to the fridge," Dante sighed. "You're an asshole, giraffe-Anders. Lucky you're cute most of the time."

[not_every_mage]

"I'd be cute as a giraffe, too," Anders said smugly, and batted his longer lashes at Dante.

[rebelseekspizza]

"Giraffes can't be cute, they have kind of fucked-up faces," Dante said with a snicker, leaning in to try and give Anders a pizza-y kiss.

[not_every_mage]

"Says who?" Anders asked, after lightly returning the kiss. "Who put you in charge of what's cute and what's not?"

[rebelseekspizza]

"Me," Dante decided. "You want me to look up a picture of a giraffe's head? You tell me if that's a face more than just their mom can love."

[not_every_mage]

"Go for it," Anders said, waving a hand at him. "They aren't ugly. They look like goats with long necks."

That maybe wasn't a killer argument.

[rebelseekspizza]

Dante took a second to call up Google on his phone, then presented Anders with the results a moment later.

"That is not cute," he argued.